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Well. which is why he requested additional information particularly about the way the f.b.i. broke every standard protocol that they had. a lot of problems here and we ll see what the judge does later today. sandra: live team fox coverage now with kevin corke at the white house. first to chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge outside u.s. district court in washington catherine. good morning. within the last hour the former national security advisor mike flynn and wife and legal team arrived at the federal courthouse here in washington, d.c. from our team in the courtroom they re in court along with special counsel representatives waiting on the judge emmett sullivan. what s come into focus in the last 10 days with the flynn case is the handling of his f.b.i. interview january 24, 2017 at the white house. by his own admission the former f.b.i. director james comey said they did not follow ....
Or didn t make, and so he is deflecting. bill: do you remember january 24, 2017? that was the day the f.b.i. agents came to talk to general flynn. do you remember that day in the west wing? no, i don t. that day is not one that sticks out among the ones when i was there. bill: comey said in the interview a week and a half, let s send guys over there. it s early on. they re disorganized. let s take a shot at it. what did you think of that? well, knowing what we know now is a lot different than what we knew at the time, which is again i think taking advantage of this and not do it properly is from what we can tell happened in the sense that they were going in and trying the talk to this guy without fully making him aware of the circumstances for which they were going in to talk to him. so, you know. as we look back now i think a lot more makes sense as to what the real motives were back ....
They could have just said okay, we said our piece. flynn said his. we agree on no jail time. we re good. well, that is not, to put it mildly, what the special counsel did today. this is how their filing today starts. quote, in his sentencing memorandum, the defense of michael flynn cited circumstances surrounding his fbi interview on january 24, 2017, as a mitigating offense. nothing caused the defendant to make false statements to the fbi. the defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the russian ambassador weeks before the fbi interview. when he lied about that topic to the media, the incoming vice president, and other members of the presidential transition team. when faced with the fbi s ....
Some additional facts regarding the circumstances of the fbi interview of general flynn on january 24, 2017, the one where he lied that are relevant to the court s consideration of a just punishment. michael flynn then goes on to describe how basically he feels like he was kind of the interview was just kind of a casual chat, and because agents never warned him it is in fact a crime to lie to the fbi, because who would know it s a crime to lie to the fbi? and flynn named checks andrew mccabe and peter strzok, who were eventually driven from their jobs. well, today was the deadline for the special counsel s office to file its reply to that flynn filing. and once again, we didn t really expect anything dramatic. prosecutors didn t necessarily even have to file much of anything. ....
Answer questions behind closed doors monday on capitol hill. and flynn s sentencing in federal court is scheduled tuesday next week. martha: thank you. hair now, jonathan turley from george washington university. and byron york, washington examiner and are both fox news contributors and followed this since day. byron, let me start with you. your initial reaction when you read through the documents today? it clears up a couple of the mysteries. we had seen in the court papers released not long ago about august 22 report on this. we didn t know what it was. now it turns out that peter strozk, the f.b.i. agent who interviewed flynn in january of 2017 was interviewed himself by the f.b.i. in august and he recalled some of those detailed. by the way, the original report that the f.b.i. agents wrote about the interview on january 24, 2017, the original report on that was not ....